Electronic device, method for controlling electronic device, and program

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10133583-B2
Application number	US-201414293507-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 2, 2014
Priority date	Jun 25, 2013
Publication date	Nov 20, 2018
Grant date	Nov 20, 2018

Abstract

There is provided an electronic device including a manipulation unit configured to acquire manipulation by a user, and a control unit configured to selectively execute one of a plurality of controls of the electronic device which are associated with a duration of the manipulation and to perform switching of at least one of the plurality of controls according to information indicating a state of the electronic device.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An electronic device comprising:
circuitry configured to
acquire manipulation by a user,
selectively execute one of a plurality of controls of the electronic device which are associated with a duration of the manipulation and to perform switching of at least one of the plurality of controls according to information indicating a state of the electronic device,
output information for the user,
perform switching on the at least one of the plurality of controls according to the information indicating the state of the electronic device, the plurality of controls including power controls and command controls of an application function provided by the electronic device at least one of which is executed when the duration of the manipulation is longer than or equal to a first threshold,
switch one of the command controls of the application function with another command control in response to determining that the application function is not properly operating.

2. The electronic device according to claim 1 ,
wherein when the duration of the manipulation is shorter than second threshold, the second threshold being larger than the first threshold, the circuitry executes one of the power controls which is for shutting down the electronic device, and when the duration of the manipulation is longer than or equal to the second threshold, the circuitry executes one of the power controls which is for rebooting the electronic device.

3. The electronic device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the circuitry is configured to determine whether the information for the user is being output.

4. The electronic device according to claim 3 ,
wherein when the circuitry determines that the information for the user is being output, the circuitry executes one of the power controls which is for shutting down the electronic device, and when the circuitry determines that the information for the user is not being output, the circuitry executes one of the power controls which is for rebooting the electronic device.

5. The electronic device according to claim 1 ,
wherein when the duration of the manipulation is shorter than the first threshold, the circuitry executes one of the power controls which is for causing the electronic device to transition to a power saving state.

6. The electronic device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the manipulation is pressing of a power button.

7. The electronic device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the circuitry is configured to determine whether the application function is operating properly, based on a processing state of the application function of the circuitry.

8. The electronic device according to claim 7 ,
wherein when the duration of the manipulation is longer than or equal to the first threshold, the circuitry executes one of the command controls which is for terminating the application function on condition that the application function of the circuitry is not busy, and the circuitry executes one of the command controls which is for rebooting the application function on condition that the application function is busy.

9. The electronic device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the circuitry is further configured to:
execute network communication for the application function; and
determine whether the application function is operating properly, based on a processing state of the circuitry.

10. The electronic device according to claim 9 ,
wherein when the duration of the manipulation is longer than or equal to the first threshold, the circuitry executes one of the command controls which is for terminating the application function on condition that the circuitry is not executing communication for the application function, and the circuitry executes one of the command controls which is for rebooting the application function on condition that the circuitry is executing communication for the application function.

11. The electronic device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the circuitry provides a function by which a user makes a selection from control before the switching and control after the switching.

12. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein the circuitry is further configured to retrieve and output previously output information to the user in response to the duration of the manipulation being less than the first threshold.

13. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein the circuitry is further configured to
perform switching of the at least one power control in response to determining that information is not being output to the user, and
determine whether or not the information for the user is being output, based on whether or not the duration of the manipulation is longer than or equal to a second threshold, which is larger than the first threshold.

14. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein the application function is a web browser provided by the electronic device.

15. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein the command control of the application becomes a reboot control of the application in response to the duration of the manipulation being longer than a second threshold, the second threshold being larger than the first threshold.

16. A method for controlling an electronic device, the method comprising:
acquiring, with circuitry, manipulation by a user;
selectively executing, with the circuitry, one of a plurality of controls of the electronic device which are associated with a duration of the manipulation and performing switching of at least one of the plurality of controls according to information indicating a state of the electronic device;
outputting, with the circuitry, information for the user;
performing, with the circuitry, switching on the at least one of the plurality of controls according to the information indicating the state of the electronic device, the plurality of controls including power controls and command controls of an application function provided by the electronic device at least one of which is executed when the duration of the manipulation is longer than or equal to a first threshold; and
switching one of the command controls of the application function with another command control in response to determining that the application function is not operating properly.

17. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer readable instructions thereon which when executed by a computer cause the computer to perform a method comprising:
acquiring manipulation by a user;
selectively executing one of a plurality of controls of the electronic device which are associated with a duration of the manipulation and performing switching of at least one of the plurality of controls according to information indicating a state of the electronic device;
outputting information for the user;
performing switching on the at least one of the plurality of controls according to the information indicating the state of the electronic device, the plurality of controls including power controls and command controls of an application function provided by the electronic device at least one of which is executed when the duration of the manipulation is longer than or equal to a first threshold; and
switching one of the command controls of the application function with another command control in response to determining that the application function is not properly operating.

Assignees

• Sony Corp

Inventors

• Takahashi Tetsuya
• Masuda Takeshi

Classifications

• G06F1/26

  Power supply means, e.g. regulation thereof (for memories G11C) · CPC title

• G06F1/3265 Primary

  Power saving in display device · CPC title

• G06F9/4401 Primary

  Bootstrapping (security arrangements therefor G06F21/57) · CPC title

• G06F1/3234

  Power saving characterised by the action undertaken · CPC title

• Y02D10/153

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic